2024 Mogadishu SYL Hotel attack and siege

On 14 March 2024, a suicide bomber affiliated with al-Shabaab detonated a device outside the SYL hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia. Three guards and two security forces were reported killed. Five gunmen then stormed the hotel in 13-hour siege, causing a gunfight with the army which resulted in the deaths of three soldiers and the six attackers. Twenty-seven other people were wounded. The hotel is located close to the Presidential Palace. The location makes it popular with government officials.

2024 Mogadishu SYL Hotel attack and siege
Part of the Somali Civil War
LocationSYL Hotel, Mogadishu, Somalia
Date14 March 2024 (2024-03-14)
TargetCivilians
Attack type
Bombing, siege, shootout
Deaths14 (including 6 perpetrators)
Injured27
PerpetratorsAl-Shabaab
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